Nat Geo VR experience thrusts New Yorkers to Mars

November 7, 2016

Manhattan hosted a virtual reality experience taking approximately 3,500 guests on a 90-minute interstellar journey on a spaceship to Mars. National Geographic staged this event called “Experience Mars” to promote its upcoming Mars mixed genre series, which will feature a scripted, fictionalized drama based on a Mars colonization effort and real-life NASA history. A Nat Geo executive marked the New York event as “the biggest premiere in our network’s history,” emphasizing the company’s goal to become “the world’s leading destination for premium science, adventure, and exploration content.” The television series Mars premieres on November 14, and will also include interviews with SpaceX founder Elon Musk, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and others.